THE COMPUTER GAME, MALICE IS NOW CANCELLED! Malice was an upcoming computer game for PS2 and Xbox (xbox price $49.99). The game kept on being delayed and due to cost the game was cancelled but the information on the game is still up. The game is about a small girl with a huge hammer. The band will supply three songs to the soundtrack which will be Platinum Blonde Life, Dectective and In My Head (remixed??), and Gwen Stefani will be supplying the voice of the little girl and is pictured left recording her vocals. The rest of the band members will be voicing other characters. The voices were recorded in early May 2002. STORYLINE OF MALICE In a war between two unlikely forces, a strange girl dies, only to escape the long queues of dead in the afterlife and return to fix the fractured worlds it seems she might have created. On her return, she must reboot the Orrery, the machine that turns the universe, and travel through the Elemental Gates of the Past, Present and Future Her adventures will pitch her against funny characters, surreal creatures, Magic Guardians, and the brutal marching boots of an unending cloned Army. All time-lines lead to a final blistering conflict with a super-fueled, lava drooling, nuclear Fire God, hell bent on consuming the planet Help Malice evolve through 4 different incarnations to become the Goddess destined to defeat a God gone mad! Use an array of spectacular magic skills and apocalyptic weaponry, like the Clockwork Hammer, the Mace of Clubs and the Quantum Tuning Fork... ...Surreal, stunning and unique, Malice is a cataclysmically dark and comic tale. FEATURES True real-time shadowing. Fully parametric Phong shading with pervasive bump-mapping. No far clip planes, ever … no "popping". Super-high detailed characters with weighted soft-skinning. Ultra high-res textures. IK simulators for hair and other flexible objects. Realtime 3D surround sound with 64 voices at once. MSRP: $49.99 THE MALICE WEBSITE There is now a website from sierra here. The website contains more information on the game and if you go 'Behind The Scenes' you can watch a video of the game mixed with No Doubt interviews and Gwen recording her vocals. The 'downloads' section also includes wallpapers, trailers and other short videos. MALICE VIDEOS As well as the Malice website you can check out MTV here for more interviews with No Doubt on Malice. WHAT NO DOUBT SAY ABOUT MALICE Of Malice Tony says: "Being a band that grew up in the video game generation, the fusing of video games and music is exciting to us," bassist Tony Kanal noted. "To be involved with a game during its creative development was a cool opportunity so we jumped at the chance to be part of 'Malice.'" Tom:"Malice and Gwen are both kind of bad-ass. There's an assertive, empowered nature to the way they approach what they're doing: Gwen rocking the stage, and Malice rocking the game." Gwen says "Having our songs in Malice is another way to get our music to people who might not otherwise hear it, we make music -- that's what we do and we love to share it. The Sierra people came to us and proposed that we put some of our songs in this game," Stefani said. "And then it kind of evolved into, 'Well, maybe you guys can be in the game and maybe do the voices.' And that seemed kind of exciting." "It would be cool to be a band onstage in an amphitheater or arena full of audience members," Dumont said. "We would have weapons, and if there were audience members who were yawning or not participating, or maybe there are some evil guys, like pickpockets, we could shoot them." "The guys with the laser pointers, kill them," Kanal added. "Either kill them or maybe just hit them with paint balls," the ever-gentle Dumont said, prompting Stefani's suggestion: "Taser them?" Dumont then looked to Young, "You could hurl drumsticks at them." "And maim them in the throat?" The picture on the left is who Gwen will be playing. INFORMATION ON GAME PLAY Malice is 3D action-adventure game featuring a tough, funny, magic-abusing wannabe Goddess called Malice! The player must guide Malice through 22 levels of Elemental chaos to break free of the twisted time-loops & change the devastating histories that drive the game's uniquely evolutionary worlds. Malice has been heralded for its fantastic graphics, fluid gameplay, compelling storyline, and funny characterisation . It's certain to become one of the great action-adventure games on the next generation console systems.